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CanadaCanada has huge reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals, timber. Americans need that.
Canada doesn't need anything americans sell
Adobe Photoshop 👉 Use GIMP or Affinity.
Adobe Illustrator 👉 Use Inkscape or Affinity.
Word and Excel 👉 LibreOffice is better. No AI shit and it won't spy on you.
Microsoft Windows 👉 Use Linux. It's more secure anyway.
General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla 👉 We don't need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai, Toyotas, Honda, Volkswagen.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Starbucks Coffee 👉 Just drink local coffee.
McDonalds 👉 Buy from A&W or Harveys
Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Four Seasons 👉 Go to Canadian hotels
Amazon 👉 Fuck Jeff Bezos. Buy from your local stores.
Maxwell House Coffee 👉 Balzac's Coffee Roasters is Canadian
Tourism 👉 Visit Quebec, Banff National Park, Niagara Falls, Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Yoho National Park. Go north to watch beautiful Arctic landscapes. At least you won't be shot and killed.
Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won't crash.
What do americans sell that Canadians actually need? Nothing. They just sell convenience. Their products are often substandard
Amazon is really really hard to avoid if you need something the local stores don't sell. I'm going to give AliExpress another try, but it wasn't promising the last time.
There's no streaming category here, as well. Crave and Gem can probably keep you going between them.
Britbox as a non-American option to supplement CBC Gem and Crave too.
The biggest lie is that we needed them. We've become addicted to the lifestyles that they've exported via their gross culture. All their movies and fucking "reality" tv (which is so far from actual real life that it's almost a case study for nominative irony). Look what it's wrought on them though. The putrid apathy of the pitiable, American public is a LESSON for us. We need to stop taking their drug, or we're going to get as sick as they are now. While we still have any agency left!
Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won't crash.
I guess Bombardier was a casualty before the war was declared.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Samsung phones are better than iPhone, but in the meantime only slightly. Their bootloaders have become pretty much impossible to unlock, meaning you're stuck with Android (Google). At the moment Linux is not particularly workable as a daily driver for most people, but it's good to think ahead in hopes that we might be able to rid ourselves of the Appl-Google duopoly some time in the future, and being able to unlock your bootloader is one of the keys to that, since it is a precondition to installing a different operating system.
Yup. Some of the Chinese brands are decent and unlockable if anything American is off the table.
Buy a used pixel and put Garphene OS on it. WAY better experience.
Introductory French by Language Transfer, the best language learning system you'll ever find (and it's free too!)
Yes. It seems like a little thing, but I think we really need to strengthen our cross Canada relationships. Those with indigenous communities as well.
To start with, check out Mauril. It's an app put out by CBC-Radio Canada. It uses bits of archive videos with vocab and comprehension questions. It's not going to make you fluent by any means but it's a start.
We don't need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai
Almost all Hyundai's sold in North America are made in Alabama
And a lot of Fords are built in Canada, and a lot of parts in whatever car from elsewhere in the US. It's kind of an ABUSA edge case.
~~And most Toyotas are built in the US.~~
Edit: some production is starting in Kentucky.
Can you buy BYD EVs in Canada?
Although it's probably going to be only the high-end models, unless dropping the quotas on Chinese cars becomes part of the trade war.
Soon. They are in the process of setting up 22 dealers here.
https://energynow.ca/2026/04/byd-to-open-20-car-dealerships-in-canada-this-year/
Carolla's and Camry's are made it Mexico. The moved them from Cambridge ON, and started making Lexus' at that plant.
Corollas and camrys. I had to look because the apostrophes looked weird.
http://www.grammarunderground.com/nissan-leafs-or-nissan-leaves-plurals-of-irregular-proper-names.html
yeah, in no way did pluralizing make sense the way I did it.
You got two upvotes from me because of this comment.
I suspect Stellantis builds in Canada.
They have essentially closed their plant in Brampton and moved production to the US.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stellantis-brampton-assembly-plant-unifor-9.7307672
Apparently the plant is going up for sale now.
RAV4 is built here as are the Lexus NX and RX.
A large portion of RAV4 production is moving to Kentucky.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/toyota-begins-u-s-production-of-top-selling-rav4-hoping-to-sate-red-hot-demand-45135583
Due to US demand. Canadian dealers will still source from Canadian plants. Obviously this is information is current as of today who knows what changes could come about in coming weeks
Source: wife works at Toyota in Cambridge.
Ya, we used to make them all for the US as well.
Payment 👉 Use Interac instead of credit card.
Seriously that should be #1. They charge 2-3% transaction fee to the vendor, give you 1% back as a "reward" to give you the impression that you're not being screwed over and pocket the rest. Meanwhile Interac charges only 1/10th of that and it is Canadian.
Paying with a credit card is like playing a 1-2% tax to the US. I'm sure if someone did the math they'd be horrified by his much of a drain it is on our economy while it boosts theirs.
Also Krita has become extremely capable and easier to approach coming from Photoshop than GIMP IMO. If should at least be listed along it as an alternative to Photoshop.
Cash. Cash is life.
I second Krita. There also used to be CorelDraw... but they were acquired by private equity earlier this year :(
Interac sucks though, we need a nationalized instant payments mechanism.
Also I don't understand why business owners don't push harder for Interac given the blatant fee difference
Interac is all across Canada, for purchases or sending cash direct to a buddy. How does it suck?
Never found a place that interac doesnt work. TF are you doing wrong?
I wouldn't say sucks, but there are benefits that credit cards have that Interac doesn't. But why cant we have a Canadian credit company?
But why cant we have a Canadian credit company?
Yes I think we should have both. A nationalized instant payment platform, and a Canadian credit card provider. Both have their uses, both are critical infrastructure.
Natural resources.
Canada relies on the US for oil and lumber. That's why we've been trying to get out of free trade agreements ever since the US forced them on us.
I don't doubt you but why do we rely on them for oil and lumber? You'd think we produce enough here. But maybe we're sending it all south to be processed into something usable.
From what I understand Canada doesn't produce many value added products. We sell lots of dimensional lumber and crude oil, but not much gasoline and furniture. We even started selling whole logs, to be produced in China and elsewhere.
Also stop buying Google Pixels. Wait for the Motorola phones that support Graphene if you have to use that OS or buy a Samsung.
No, Samsung sucks from a FOSS point of view. Go Chinese before you touch those cursed things. Buying a used whatever is also an option.
Think most mazda's are made in Japan still
Ford owns Mazda
And then a million people all around the world own Ford.
We're better served focusing on where the production happens, not the branding.
Ford never owned Mazda outright, they had a large stake in them for awhile (never majority), but I just searched it and apparently they've been completely divested since 2015
One of the best things to happen to mazda.
Unfortunately, your currency is tied to the USD. Urge your government to join BRICS, and it may matter.
BRICS is a joke, and no, that's not how money works.
The CAD is correlated to the USD for macroeconomic reasons mostly, and BRICS isn't an economic trade agreement that has a "join" process. It's just a popular term for the largest non-US/EU centered economies. (But sure, let's continue expanding the partnerships with Asia and Mercosul)
Joining the Euro might kinda make sense (only if Canada joined the EU, but why would you hook yourself up with an economy in a tailspin like Russia ?
